When It Comes to Addiction Treatment, 'Any Door Should Be the Right Door'
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North Carolina's STAR Network, a partnership of three medical hubs, is expanding access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) through primary care providers in rural areas. The 2023 federal lifting of buprenorphine restrictions enabled the network, which received $50 billion in federal funding over five years as part of the Rural Health Transformation Program, to train and support community health providers using a hub-and-spoke model inspired by Vermont's successful approach.
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